Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chen Yonglin

I would not suggest to French businesses to invest in China, the government is not stable.

Tony Stewart

The one thing I don't do, that helps make me successful, is I don't rob Peter to pay Paul. All of my businesses have to stand on their own.

Max Spevack

What we weren't counting on was the rapid progress of the Open Invention Network, which serves a similar purpose for businesses in a much more compelling way.

John Davidson

What we've seen has really been priced into the market. At this point we need to see evidence of rising spending on capital and businesses hiring employees.

Deborah Dowdell

What we don't like is private developers... seeking to get for free what small businesses in New Jersey have had to pay for.

Rod Donald

Good businesses have nothing to fear from the Greens.

Shannon Sessions

He's hit ten different businesses in Lynnwood, Edmonds and unincorporated Snohomish County. He runs in with this mask on, waving around a gun and demanding money, then running out.

Jerry Nolder

I think it's extremely important that we make sure the companies and businesses already here are getting our full support. I am making sure my door is always open to them. I will do whatever I can to make sure they remain a viable part of this community.

Tim Ghriskey

It certainly has worked for Wal-Mart and Target. Sears has a good chance at making a name in those businesses and capturing some share, but it's not going to be overnight.

SA Martinez

I think this really just gives us more life, even down the road, ... It deepens our catalog to the point where these songs, I think, are really going to grow on our fans and are just going to be fun to play live. And I think it just points us in the right direction.

Sheryl Crow

Part of that is record labels continually try to work their catalog so they always have money coming in,

Julie Brown

Our models are a catalogue of our options, so pretty much everything that we offer or a lot of what we offer is in this model.

Jonathan Shapiro

I normally keep a series of draft in a catalogue type of book in which I scribble, sketch and draw ideas.

Paul Parker

In each of these companies I do whatever needs to be done, whether it's ideas, testing, marketing, catalog copy-writing, or dishes.

Craig Venter

I have this idea of trying to catalog all the genes on the planet.

Arlen Specter

I have no reason to catalogue him as an ideologue.

Jamie Harris

I love the way (Boot Camp) is so simple to use. I also like the idea of proper video drivers--as this opens up a whole catalog of games.

Steve Feldstein

It's classic catalog marketing. You never really run out of anything.

Diane Swonk

I think the market is tired of Christmas. We've already seen the Christmas reports. As far as the market is concerned, that's old news.

Julio Ziegelmann

We're on the eve of the millennium, right between Christmas and New Year's when things should be dead, but liquidity just keeps holding out.

Marcus Trescothick

It is pretty nice to end the tour with a win. We will think of the Indian tour after Christmas.

Joe Wojtkiewicz

I thought we played awfully well together, especially coming off Christmas break.

Stockard Channing

I think we'll be gone by Christmas, ... The West Wing.

Jose Lopez

It is kind of like Christmas in August.

Susan Peele

I went from having a terrible Christmas ? going through a divorce ? to having a really nice Christmas. I really had the guts to do something I've never done.

Alison Owen

I was a little punk rocker and was pregnant with Sarah when I went to university. I had her in the Christmas holidays of the first term. It was 1979, and UCL was very proud of its reputation as a liberal university, so they were very helpful.

Marty DeJarnette

I want you to stick to him like grandma's Thanksgiving dressing on Christmas day.

John Ashcroft

I would say that Mr. Thompson and Mr. Olson are very outstanding individuals, whose records of public service, including service with this Department of Justice, are exemplary records. But those are not my announcements to make, ... Those are presidential appointments and they will require, in each case, the confirmation by the United States Senate.

Stephen Miller

Just smoke everywhere and everyone busy. The fire department running around.

Tom Walters

I think it's a great fit. (Kirk's) been really good with Department 56 and Byers' Choice.

James McDonough

I think it really puts the department on very solid footing to do its missions and do it in a streamlined and effective manner. This is a very healthy and very positive realignment.

Jerry Moran

I always assumed the Department of Agriculture was the farmer and rancher's friend.

Larry Ellison

What is Oracle? It's people. We rely on our HR department to build this organization, to help find those people, to help grow those people.

Jenny Manley

He sees a discussion about moving FEMA from under the jurisdiction of the Department of Homeland Security as an excellent starting point in efforts to make the federal government more responsive in emergencies.

Joel Klatt

I think it's important to most of us because of exactly what it provides to the whole program. Obviously, the whole department gets a little national respect. Hopefully, we go down there and put together a solid effort and get recognized on a national stage where we feel we belong.

Michael Marrero

It is funded by a grant by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

John Chambers

I would summarize the quarter as a solid quarter from a revenue and earnings per share perspective and a strong quarter from an orders perspective.

John Davidson

There are some worries about will the earnings this year support the 2-1/2 year highs that the indexes have recently reached, particularly in an environment where interest rates will be rising.

Michael Sheldon

I think the last few weeks have probably been frustrating for investors. Earnings have been very positive, but the focus has been on interest rates. Over the next few sessions, it looks like the fear of higher interest rates will probably outweigh the earnings.

Barry Hyman

I think the picture is optimistic and earnings in general have been better than expected.

Peter Mancuso

I think you're looking out two quarters, maybe even three quarters before you start to see a substantive increase in earnings for some of these companies. That, to me, is in a nutshell what's going on in the markets.

Jon Burnham

I think the earnings are going to be better than expected, but I don't know whether the market's going to rise on that.

Richard Berner

With many people fearing a profitless recovery, earnings will probably surprise to the upside.

David Blitzer

I think we have to get through the earnings until we see a sustained advance.

John Davidson

I think that overall we are in for a pretty good earnings quarter, and that may be a positive for stocks.

Matt Kolojejchick

We've been waiting for this all year. It was one of our goals entering the season, to perform well at districts. Now we have one more day and then we look forward to states.

Chris Como

We're only entering 12 kids this year. But all 12 have a legitimate shot of qualifying.

J. Lewis

Last year, I think we were too confident. We were 23-1 entering the tournament and we just thought we were unbeatable. We know every team is equal, and we have to come out and play each team as if they are the toughest in the state.

James Buchanan

If you arre as happy in entering the White House as I shall feel on returning to Wheatland, you are a happy man indeed.

Sergio Mattarella

I had no intention of entering politics, but then the force of events led me to become involved in politics.

Geoff Johns

Everyone knows Aquaman, probably from all the animation he's been in over the years from the '70s and the '80s, entering him into the pop culture.

Martin Buber

Persons appear by entering into relation to other persons.

Lawrence O'Donnell

Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.

Paul Stoddart

It's a sad day for Formula One when the privateers really do go, but I think we are entering into a new era where the privateers are the Red Bulls, they are really well funded.

Mark Tiby

I yelled out to her that the fourth quarter was hers, and she took it.

Rick Carlisle

He (Redd) was phenomenal with his shot making, especially in the third and the fourth (quarters). Then all of them were hitting threes after a while. The third quarter did us in.

Vance Belew

I thought we were in good shape, having them in about a fourth down and 25 situation.

Chuck D.

I think the odds of getting the recovery in the fourth (quarter) look better and better.

John Davidson

I think the fourth quarter will be positive on earnings.

Art Hogan

I think the fourth quarter is going to be great, ... We just don't have signs of it yet.

Kendra Todd

What do I think about that? I think this is the fourth season and Mr. Trump is going after ratings,

Alan Graf

We're proud of our fourth quarter, and we're back.

Robert Toomey

We're only in the third or fourth inning, there's still a long way to go.

Ken Hill

Mistakes can be good things, because it is an unexpected thing.

Charles Warren

I was like, 'Wow,' something's going on here, ... Something good is about to happen.

Ramon Hernandez

I was looking for a fastball. I got it on the good part of the bat. It went where no one could get it.

Carl Pohlad

Kirby's too good a guy to have something like this (stroke) happen.

Buck Showalter

Kenny was effective. They've seen Kenny so much. They hit some good pitches for hits. He bent, but he didn't break.

Kevin Towers

Khalil is an exciting, popular player. We think he's going to have a real good year, offensively and defensively.

John Crumbley

(Key West) had a tough week this week, but (starting pitcher Daniel) Foltz pitched a good game. It was good to be in this type of pressure situation.

Michael Young

Kevin will be fine. He's going to have a big year. He's a good hitter. It's just a matter of getting him hot, and sometimes it takes a little longer than you'd like.

Jim Sullivan

Kevin's times this year are just a shade off of what Jesse Bentley used to run, ... I think he'll have a really good year.

Lamar Owens

I would've been satisfied with a one-point victory. But we wanted to prove that we're on a different level ... To come out and play the way we did was phenomenal.

Siobhan Finneran

'Downton' has really pushed me to a new level in my career, but it's not like I have a big career plan. They are about as useful as a birth plan; they should be burned.

Brad Goreski

There are so many levels in fashion that I'm happy to dip in and dip out of it all.

P. J. Harvey

going on at the acquisition level and the requirements level.

Marco Sullivan

I think it's great, personally. Now everyone's got to perform. It's another level of intensity. Everyone is kind of picking it up.

Scott Butler

I think it's here now, but it may not stay, ... I don't know that it will level out at this amount.

F. Schumacher

I think with 12 to 13 minutes left, we stepped up our level of play. We were in a lull in the first half.

Diane Adams

We're pleased to know that at the congressional level they're realizing this is important.

Karl Hobbs

I think we still have a way to go. I want to get to the point where we're playing at the level we need to play at. Because very shortly it's going to come down to one game, one play and that's my focus. We need to be at the level where its one play and your season is over.

Frank Martinez

We've been told to say that. (And say) whatever it takes to get that phone line in the receiver.

Mike Boyajian

We've got to keep on scoring. Right now, all three of our lines are starting to score. A team can't concentrate on one of our lines. We're pretty deep.

Mario Lemieux

I thought the other lines were pretty good, as well. We'll see what happens.

Nariman Behravesh

I think that whole line of reasoning is overdone.

Antoni Gaudi

There are no straight lines or sharp corners in nature. Therefore, buildings must have no straight lines or sharp corners.

Dale Mitchell

He was lined up straight with the ship canal,

Joy Harjo

I come from a long line of revolutionaries.

Rick Carlisle

He has an NBA skill and that's that he can post up and score. He can also shoot from midrange and I think he'll be able to stretch it maybe to the NBA 3-point line down the line.

Richelle Mead

My life didnʹt need to be on the line for me to enjoy dessert.

Andrew Zimbalist

I think the press has been sucked in by the rhetoric of brinkmanship. I've been optimistic all along.

Beth Martin

We're optimistic that we'll restore the rest of them tomorrow.

Ray Green

We're optimistic that we'll get back on track.

Mike Cox

We're optimistic that there's going to be a peaceful outcome to all this.

Russ Granik

I don't have any reason to be optimistic here.

William S. Burroughs

The program of the ruling elite in Orwell's 1984 was: "A foot stamping on a human face forever!" This is naive and optimistic. No species could survive for even a generation under such program. This is not a program of eternal, or even long-range dominance. It is clearly an extermination program.

William McDonough

Design is inherently optimistic. That is its power.

William James

Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit.

William Foege

Finally, develop tenacity and an optimistic outlook. It doesn't mean that everything will always work out or that you won't suffer. But pessimism seems to be designed to force you to suffer before the fact!

Charlie Smith

Her performance really surprised me, considering she's on a taper for states.

Dave Littlefield

His performance isn't up to what we've seen in the past.

Jessie Reyes

I threw some different wrestlers in there to see how they would compete. I wasn't pleased with our performance. As a team, we need to pick it up.

Bryan Clay

I'm very, very disappointed with my performance here.

David Beckham

I'm pleased with my personal performance but particularly with the way the team played overall.

Harold S. Geneen

In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Kim Yuna

In competition, when I start performance I try not to think about all the pressure from the fans. But, I got a lot of energy from them always. They make me more perfect.

Wayne Fairclough

I'm not satisfied with the performance but three points is three points and once you get the points you can stay in touch with the leader.

Eric Bana

I always find that 90% of the performance, for me, is about what comes from inside.

Joanna Lumley

I'm three quarters Scottish, but I sound English. I don't really see British as a race.

Kevin Rollins

The first quarter is always the toughest quarter for us.

LenDale White

It's not about how the first or second quarter ends,

Meggie Ford

It's been like that all year. We always have one of those quarters when we don't play well.

Rob Haines

It's disappointing that they are restating earnings. We don't want another quarter of surprises.

Eli Manning

I'm not a 25-interception quarterback, I know that,

Paul Weyrich

Second, a quarter to a third of those who listen to Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity are liberals.

Jim McMahon

I don't like the rules about you can't hit the quarterback.

Richard Repetto

A strong quarter pretty much any way you slice it.

Unknown

Here's to the new husband, And here's to the new wife, May they remain lovers, For all of life.

Tracy Morgan

Whatever I did on 'Saturday Night Live' is going to stay and remain on 'Saturday Night Live.'

Woody Allen

My relationship with death remains the same - I'm strongly against it.

Paul Wolfowitz

The cost of the high-cost economy remains too high.

George Glynos

It should remain in a 6.12 to 6.20 range.

Neal A. Maxwell

The "new" in us is bound to notice the "old" that remains.

Kelly Clarkson

Everything changes, but beauty remains.

Slim Jimmy

Around women, I try to remain calm and collected.

Joyce Carol Oates

You don't have to understand why anything that has happened nor do you even have to understand what it is that has happened. You have only to live with the remains.

Angie Myers

In retail we can't really get together at Christmastime, so we make a vacation of this.

Jeff Barker

This is a competitive business, like any other retail business. It's very important to stay on point.

Peter Cardillo

The retail sales are a real blow-out number.

Michael Beyard

The retailers want to be on the street now.

David Cook

It's time for big-box retailers to start to do the right things by their employees.

S. Walker

We're not going to do that. I think the retailers would go nuts.

Rich Repetto

We're seeing a significant retail component. This isn't an IPO, but that's the way it's acting.

Todd Jones

The teen retailers and some of the specialty retailers were the clear-cut winners.

Sherry Cooper

This is still a very strong retail sales report,

Zig Ziglar

I have always said that everyone is in sales. Maybe you don't hold the title of salesperson, but if the business you are in requires you to deal with people, you, my friend, are in sales.

Maria Rodriguez

In other years, by this time, sales are exploding, but this year it's very slow.

James Cook

A salesman sees a commission.

Catherine Lee

It's not an appraisal, it's more of a sales tool.

Rob Spear

It's unbelievable. Our ticket sales are going like hotcakes.

Shawn Roop

At first, all I wanted the Web site to do was $50 in sales a day, then $100 -- now I look for $350 a day.

Peter Reynolds

When we have a special event, our sales triple,

Joel Rassman

The stock sales have nothing to do with the state of the market. It has everything to do with diversification.

Brian Tracy

Resolve to be among the top 20% of salespeople who make 80% of the sales.

Francis Gannon

I think what you need to do in the technology segment between now and the end of the year is own the leaders,

Joe Eberhardt

The mid-sized SUV segment is probably not going to grow, but will become even more fragmented. To survive in the segment, automakers are going to have to make a real difference.

Tom Libby

It's one of the, if not the most competitive segments. You have high-volume brands, and a lot of their entries in that segment are flagship models.

Rory Bruer

I think it's a good, solid start for us,

Doug Mirabelli

He's been solid for us all year, and we need him now more than ever.

Lawrence Lau

He may have been transferring waste without a solid waste permit.

Katie Uhlaender

In my training runs, I threw down solid yesterday.

Hubie Brown

In my opinion, they are the favorite, and they are a solid favorite.

Jose Bergamin

True solidarity is only possible among the solitary.

Clint Chamberlin

The JV got after it and had a solid outing.

David Ritchie

All this means. . . we have a really solid footing.

Mike Donahue

Once again, we had a solid third period.

Ron Bruch

There are a lot of stories out there, some probably written and stored with old photographs in shoeboxes in closets.

James Henderson

I'll play here. I got two stores to go to.

Philip Green

I don't like department stores. I had a chain of department stores back in 1994 which was Lewis's and Owen Owen, only for a short time, and I found department stores personally difficult.

Herman Franck

You can't just walk into a store and get that stuff.

Jim Sluzewski

We're still evaluating the store base. We've made no other determinations as of yet.

Ron Washington

As long as I can remember, that store had been there.

Eugene Fram

The stores have become a hangout for teen girls.

Gordon Sinclair

You talk about scandals and the Americans put theirs right in the store window for everyone to look at.

Elie Tahari

Financially Im comfortable. But life has a lot more in store for me.

Chris Mack

He's a linebacker with the basketball. He's so doggone strong for a guard.

Steve Trimper

He's got a strong arm. It was a game-saving throw right there.

Larry Taddeo

He's got a strong arm. I think he'll get some looks.

John Gibbons

He should be strongly considered, 13 wins, 200-plus innings. I'd vote for him.

Lance Armstrong

I think we have fielded our strongest team ever with this formation,

Rob Stutzman

I think we win three for sure. Everything is trending strongly our way.

Anton LaVey

In this arid wilderness of steel and stone I raise up my voice that you may hear. To the East and to the West I beckon. To the North and to the South I show a sign proclaiming: Death to the weakling, wealth to the strong!

Wolfgang Ziebart

We have to be better in Japan. We're not strong enough there.

Whitney Conder

He was strong and quick. Everyone here is a tough wrestler. He just got me early. I'm not done yet.

Pete Shelley

They weren't headlining. They were third down the bill,

Evan Benjamin

They got in some pretty big plays. I thought we were stout in getting them into third down and in second-and-long, but they made some pretty big plays.

Lofa Tatupu

Third downs. That's all I'm going to say.

Matthew Stafford

Third down and long is the toughest situation for any offensive coordinator in the NFL.

Robert Adler

It's the third week of outflows we've seen.

Paul Duca

It's the third time I've done it. It doesn't feel weird any more.

Chris Sanders

This is the third year I've been in business.

Jack Roush

This is the third time this week you've tried to get my goat,

Ben Roethlisberger

This is the third one. We've got one more to get. One more.